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Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

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Category: Connected Cars

  • Ptolemus Consulting’s December 2019 email newsletter says fleet insurance telematics premiums will reach $22Bn globally, by 2030. It reports that it has seen “rapid growth of connected fleet solutions in commercial vehicles and company cars: from 37 million in 2016 to 64.1 million in 2019”. It also finds that connected fleet UBI policies will reach…

  • “Insurance is a hard business to be in and while car manufacturers may play a role in delivering the insurance services of the future, we see this working as a partnership arrangement with the insurance sector.” – Graham Gordon, director, global telematics at LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

  • “Mobility is being driven by four business models and technology trends. You have autonomy, connectivity, electrification and sharing that are disrupting business models of mobility service providers and it is changing the automotive technology base. Connectivity is enabling infrastructure and people to be smarter through optimization. Over time it will change the economics of the…

  • Mike Fisher, associate director of Futuresource, comments that the current evolution of connected vehicles towards becoming in-car companions has led to a rapid rise in safety features. He also finds that the biggest area of interest at the moment is in artificial intelligence (AI) vehicle solutions – coupled with edge-based processing, and the ongoing development…

  • “Existing transportation systems are struggling to keep up with current, and future, travel demands owing to rapid urbanization and population growth,” said Simon Dixon, global transportation leader at Deloitte. He explains that there a several ways in which mobility is already evolving to meet demand and they include rapid advances connected, autonomous and electric vehicles.”

  • David Hynd, chief scientist for the CAV area within TRL, remarks about what is significant about the new code of practice: “The first point is that most people are talking about automated vehicles. People are starting to settle on this term. There is some reasoning behind this definition in that they felt that autonomous implied…

  • “The electric truck market is slower. You will see buses first. They hit on the sweet spots, such as short trips, and they have a centralized hub around which they drive. So they can be re-charged. Tesla is close to having its heavy truck and having lots of orders for them. If its track record…

  • A spokesperson for Renovo gazes into the future: “We will soon live in a world where the touch of a button will summon a driverless highly automated vehicle (HAV) that will take us on safe, convenient urban journeys at extremely low cost. This automated mobility as a service (AMaaS) or robo-taxi paradigm is the most…

  • John S. Franklin, a spokesperson for insurance company Aviva, says connected services cover a wide range of products and propositions – from driver assistance and driver wellbeing to vehicle maintenance and breakdown prevention. Maps, in-car wi-fi and infotainment are other examples of connected services.

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of data acceleration company Bridgeworks adds: “Many of the electronic systems for cars come from specialist product providers, and many have their own cyber-security penetrating tests and detection mechanisms built into their products.”